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Willie Horton Redux?
Spotted in an American Spectator article (via Andrew Sullivan):
Gov. [Mike] Huckabee [of Arkansas] had a propensity to be almost as prodigal with pardons as was his famous predecessor by the name of Clinton. Indeed, Hillary Clinton's campaign team is probably licking their chops at the prospect of Huck as the nominee, because one of his pardons, in particular, was so outlandish as to make Willie Horton's case in Massachusetts seem almost child's play by comparison. After Huckabee helped secure the release of already-well-known rapist Wayne Dumond, the released convict sexually assaulted and murdered a woman in Missouri.
Yikes. The 30-second spot writes itself.
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Posted by Jonathan Stein on 10/26/07 at 9:28 AM | E-mail | Print | Digg | de.licio.us | Reddit | Newsvine | Yahoo! MyWeb | StumbleUpon | Netscape | Google |
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Dumond is believed to have killed at least two women after Huckabee sprung him. And Huckabee is trying to deny that he pressured the parole board to release Dumond. Among the reasons that Huckabee gave at the time was that the rape victim who identified him and testified against him at trial was that the victim was a cousin of Bill Clinton and Dumond was denied a fair trial for that reason.
Here's a very good article about all of this written by Murray Waas in the Arkansas Times in 2002. http://www.arktimes.com/articles/articleviewer.aspx?ArticleID=154e1aad-fd18-4efd-8d80-b5dab8559419
Posted by: seamus on 10/26/07 at 2:50 PM Respond
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